The concept of using multiple processors or processor cores to build many consumer system products has really taken on a life of its own lately. The au courant term is “multicore” although that term ...

Software must be parallelized and modified to benefit from new approaches to enhance hardware performance in today’s automotive designs. AUTOSAR’s layered software architecture leverages MCUs to meet ...

LONDON— Multicore processor specialist Plurality Ltd. is starting to ship evaluation boards and associated development kits for its HyperCore Processor, the first designs to emerge from the work on ...

October 25, 2013. Broadcom, a maker of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, has announced the architecture for a new generation of multicore processors, featuring the industry's ...

While traditional single core systems employ a dedicated cache, theintroduction of multi-core platforms presents the opportunity toconsider the shared use of cache by multiple processors. Designs ...

"Businesses face huge challenges when it comes to managing global mobile workforces, network security, mountains of complex information, and sprawling networks of communications, and computing devices ...

Adding more cores is desirable to meet growing computing demands, but it could create more challenges for programmers writing code that enables applications to work effectively with multicore chips.

Culminating its break from the MIPS processor architecture, Broadcom is announcing a new processor based on ARM and targeting network functions virtualization (NFV) in particular. The new CPU core, ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...

The design, verification, and implementation of a processor is the core competence of some companies, but others just want to whip up a small processor as quickly and cheaply as possible. What tools ...